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  • Obama and advisors expected US fight would not last long'

  • after 2 journalists killed operation gained name CJTF OIR

  • Only airstrikes no on ground, only on ground were people there

  • Baghdadi felt exposed and his territory started to shrink

  • Mass shooting of Sunni did not mean threat, they were not more capable than al-queda (better military but other than that)

  • Can be hard to argue threat is not as hard  as people make it out to be

    • people saying they were crossing Mexico American border and bring Ebola virus under Obama administration

  • ISIS territory (has been as big Maine, but all dessert) and only cities. Little followers and most citizens not loyal and stuck in the cities.

  • ISIS is not as powerful as people want it to believe

  • Trump sustained same approach as Obama while increasing airstrikes.

  • Obama says increasing military support on ground and air (13,000 strikes total from other wars too) and on ground would reach 5,165. More were close to risk (In 2016 7 troops killed)

  • Department of defense does not publish data from those who died from CJTF OIR. There are estimates.

    • IS lost 11,000

  • Trump ordered more airstrikes, by 40%

  • Obama and Trump presented themselves differently (and rhetorical styles).

  • Obama and Trump followed same playbook with IS.

  • ISIS is losing and lost about 60% of all that (fighting enemies on all sides).

  • Victory over major terrorist troop by 2 presidents with different political parties who did not take the panic of Americans.

  • Trump would be pulling troops out of Syria (kept 400 there0.

  • Trump intensified strikes 2017

  • ISIS lost last village in 2019

  • IS Caliphate never went beyond boarder (stability was the rule not the exception)

  • Antidote to Islamic State has been actual States’